PLEASE NOTE LOCATION CHANGE: Today’s Event “Visual Legal Advocacy and the Creative Use of Video by Law Students” with Regina Austin has changed venues. It is now being held in Anatomy-Chemistry, Room 149. For Directions, please contact Jeannette at jpschroe@upenn.edu. |
Don’t miss MONDAY’s EVENT with InterACT Theatre Company! – RSVP today!
M Oct 12 @ 3pm InterAction: Theatre-based Workshops for Social Change
InterAct Theatre Company produces new and contemporary plays that explore the social, political, and cultural issues of our time. Through the discipline of theater and empowering qualities of the creative process, InterAction, InterAct’s school and community-based outreach program, fosters positive social change by promoting emotional competence and regulation, and encouraging reflective thinking. InterAction also holds workshops at colleges, universities, and other institutions to promote awareness, discussion, and action regarding issues such as diversity, tolerance, and interpersonal conflicts. |
The CPHI event ‘Voices from “Let Me Down Easy” with Anna Deveare Smith has been rescheduled for early spring semester. More information will be available shortly. If you have already reserved tickets for this event, your reservation will be honored unless it is withdrawn. |
Interested in video production? The CPHI is sponsoring the Public Health Category of the Sparky Awards!
Information sharing can be a vital tool in helping to address complex problems that challenge society - like disease, hunger, global warming, and economic disparity. The sharing of ideas gives us ways to discover, collaborate, and create in unprecedented ways. For the Public Health Category of the 2009 Sparky Awards at Penn, please submit a short 2 minute (or less) video, which innovatively illustrates the value of information sharing to the field of Public Health. For more information, please go to www.cphi.upenn.edu/2009VideoContest.shtml. |
10/7/09 @ 4p
Wednesday |
Visual Legal Advocacy and the Creative Use of Video by Law Students
PLEASE NOTE LOCATION CHANGE: 149 Anatomy Chemistry
RSVP at cphi@pobox.upenn.edu
This event is part of the Center for Public Health Initiative's 2009-2010 Seminar Series "Creative Action: the Arts in Public Health"
Featured Speaker: Regina Austin, JD, William A. Schnader Professor of Law, PennLaw. The seminar series is co-sponsored by Arts and the City Year, Civic House, VA CHERP, City of Philadelphia Office of Arts, Culture, and the Creative Economy
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10/8/09 @ 5:30
Thursday |
ONE HEALTH Panel Discussion: Human Health & Animal Disease
Location: CRB Auditorium at the Medical School
RSVP to: upenn.onehealth@gmail.com
The graduate One Health Club for UPenn health professionals is hosting an interdisciplinary panel discussion on the role of physician and veterinarian for immune-compromised patients. Whose legal responsibility is it to counsel immunosuppressed individuals on the disease risks their pets pose? Can pregnant women own cats? Are farm workers required to have regular health checks for animal diseases?
Co-sponsored by: UPenn One Health Club, Public Health Clubs of the Medical and Veterinary Schools, the School of Medicine, the American Medical Student Association, the Center for Public Health Initiatives, GAPSA. |
10/8/09 @ 4:30p
Thursday |
Drexel Grand Rounds - A Look at the Issue of Asians and Gambling with Dr. Timothy Fong
Location: Geary A Auditorium, New College Building, Drexel University, 245 N. 15th St., Philadelphia
Timothy Fong, MD, Asst. Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, UCLA. Dr. Fong is Co-Director of the UCLA Gambling Studies Program; Director, UCLA Addiction Psychiatry Fellowship; Director, UCLA Addiction Medicine Clinic, Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior at UCLA.
The Drexel-Health Partners Grand Rounds Lecture Series is an exciting series of talks and discussions concerning local, national and international issues in public health practice and research. Previous speakers have included the Massachusetts’ Secretary of Health & Human Services, officials from the Centers for Disease Control & Prevention and the Philadelphia Health Commissioner. These lectures provide an excellent opportunity for the Philadelphia community to keep informed and share insights about public health and medicine in a collegial atmosphere. Continuing Medical Education credits are available. |
10/9/09
Friday |
Penn CIGHT 2nd Annual Symposium - Is Personalized Medicine in Your Future?
Location: Harold Prince Theater, Annenberg Center, 3680 Walnut Street
Penn Faculty Speakers: Joseph Cappella PhD; Srah Gollust PhD; Caryn Lerman PhD; Katrina Armstrong MD MSCE; Kate Nathanson MD; Chanita Hughes-Halbert PhD; Ruth Schwartz Cowan PhD; Reed Pyeritz MD PhD; Barbara Bernhardt MS CGC; Joseph McInerney MS CGC |
10/12/09 @ 3p
Monday |
InterAction: Theatre-based Workshops for Social Change
Location: Terrace Room, Cohen Hall
RSVP
This event is part of the Center for Public Health Initiative's 2009-2010 Seminar Series "Creative Action: the Arts in Public Health"
Featured Artist: Interact Theatre Company.
This event is co-sponsored by University Life (VPUL) Arts Initiative. The seminar series is co-sponsored by Arts and the City Year, Civic House, VA CHERP, City of Philadelphia Office of Arts, Culture, and the Creative Economy
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10/13/09 @ 6:30p
Tuesday |
Reproductive Justice Ambassadors Tour
Location: The Family Planning Council; 260 South Broad Street, Suite 1000
RSVP: Katy Zeh at kzeh@genderhealth.org
The Center for Health and Gender Equity (CHANGE) and the Family Planning Council invite you to a panel discussion: Reproductive Justice Ambassadors Tour
Women and girls in developing countries face a constellation of reproductive health challenges: high levels of unmet need for family planning, high rates of unintended pregnancies and maternal death, and a burgeoning HIV and AIDS pandemic. Panelists will discuss why investing in comprehensive sexual and reproductive health and rights is urgently needed and how the U.S. can strengthen holistic, human rights-based care overseas that breaks down the divisions among HIV/AIDS, reproductive health, and maternal and child health. |
10/14/09 @ 8am
Wednesday |
Location: Mitten Hall, Temple University Main Campus, Philadelphia, PA
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Growing Up Healthy: Raising Children in an Urban Environment, a CIGNA Foundation Forum on Health, presents an opportunity for caregivers, representatives of nonprofit agencies and interested citizens to engage in a daylong discussion about the factors affecting the health of our children. Among the objectives of the Forum are:
* To enlighten caregivers about the strategies they can use to make sure children receive healthy messages they can comprehend and act upon; * To create a broader and deeper understanding of the personal, social and environmental influences - both positive and negative - that affect children's health; * To engage participants in examining these influences and their specific impact in an urban setting like Philadelphia; * To consider the potential of existing resources and opportunities for change; * To begin to map a collaborative path to action; And, most importantly, * To demonstrate to everyone who cares about the health of young people in our community that there are others who share their concerns and their commitment to helping our children grow up healthy! |
10/14/09 @ 6:30
Wednesday |
Surgeons and Germs in the 19th Century
Location: The College of Physicians of Philadelphia
Register/Tickets
The Radbill Lecture, Surgeons and Germs in the 19th Century.
A lecture by Sherwin B. Nuland, MD, FACS, Clinical Professor of Surgery, Yale School of Medicine, and Research Affiliate, Yale University Institution for Social and Policy Studies, and of the Program in the History of Science and Medicine. A free reception and subscription dinner will follow the program. Cost for the dinner will be: $35 per person, $20 for students and residents
Sponsored by The College of Physicians of Philadelphia, The Section on Medical History. |
10/15/09 @ 1pm
Thursday |
“Improving Access to Affordable Nutritious Food” with Allison Karpyn
Location: 3535 Market Street Room 4123, 4th Floor
RSVP/Information: bryantb@mail.med.upenn.edu
Seminar Series in Community-Based Research and Health Disparities “Improving Access to Affordable Nutritious Food”
Allison Karpyn, PhD, Director, Research & Evaluation, The Food Trust
Sponsored by the Department of Psychiatry Center for Community-Based Research and Health Disparities, Abramson Cancer Center, Center for Public Health Initiatives, Clinical and Translational Science Award |
10/15/09 @ 6:30
Thursday |
Headhouse Farmers' Market Fundraiser: Wine, Cheese and Chocolate tasting class
Tickets
Do you love chocolate? Love cheese? Love wine? Love the Headhouse Farmers’ Market? You’re in luck! The Food Trust and Rolling Barrel Events are hosting a special local wine, cheese and chocolate tasting class to raise funds to support the Headhouse Farmers’ Market on Thursday, October 15th. The class will feature four distinctive local cheeses (including chevre, blue, feta and cheddar) and four decadent, locally-produced chocolates paired with great local wines. Enjoy a fun night out and feel good about supporting your local farmers’ market at the same time!
Tickets are $40 in advance and you can sign up for a 6:30 or 7:30 pm class. To get more info and buy your tickets now: http://www.headhousemarket.org/tasting Bonus! If you purchase your tickets by Thursday, October 8th you’ll be entered to win a great selection of the local wine, cheese and chocolate featured at the event! Don’t delay – buy your tickets today! |
10/20/09 @ 6:30
Tuesday |
Location: College of Physicians of Philadelphia
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15th Annual Thomas Langfitt, Jr. Memorial Symposium on Healthcare Policy. P4P4P: Pay for Performance for Patients. Moderator: David A. Asch, MD, MBA, Robert D. Eilers Professor of Health Care Management and Economics at the University of Pennsylvania; Professor of Medicine, Health Care Management, Operations and Information Management and Medical Ethics; and Executive Director, Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics.
Speakers:
• Don Liss, MD - Aetna Mid-Atlantic Regional Medical Director
• Thomas Pellanthy - Associate Principal, McKinsey & Company, Pittsburgh Office.
• Kevin Volpp, MD, PhD - Associate Professor of Medicine and Health Care Management at the Wharton School; Associate Professor of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine; Director of the Center for Health Incentives at the Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics.
Co-sponsored with the University of Pennsylvania. Reception follows program. |
10/26/09 @ 2p
Monday |
Convenient Care Clinics and Retail Healthcare: A Critical Innovation for Successful Healthcare Reform?
Location: The College of Physicians of Philadelphia
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At this seminar, industry leaders from the Convenient Care Association, private sector clinic operators, and non-profit hospitals & health systems will discuss the growth and evolution of the retail-based convenient care model as well as plans for future growth. Speakers will include local and national industry leaders who have helped shape perhaps the most talked about disruptive healthcare model to come along in our modern era: retail-based convenient care clinics. Co-sponsored with Convenient Care Association and PhillyHealthInfo.org. Reception follows program. |
10/29/09 @ 9:30a
Thursday |
Children's Dental and Vision Care Forum
Location: PHMC 260 South Broad Street 18th Floor Philadelphia, PA 19102
RSVP: Johanna Trowbridge at johannat@phmc.org (215 985 2548)
Please join the Community Health Data Base staff for a discussion of two critical topics in children’s health: dental and vision care. The discussion will address the following questions: Which populations of children are not receiving needed dental and eye exams? Where are the gaps in services and barriers? How can we better reach the underserved? The discussion will feature new data from the Community Health Data Base 2008 Household Health Survey focusing on access to dental exams, eye exams, and eyeglasses usage among children in Southeastern Pennsylvania. This will be followed by a panel discussion with local experts in children’s health. |
10/30/09 @ 9-12p
Friday |
A Roundtable Discussion on the Health of Immigrant Communities in Philadelphia
Location: Irvine Auditorium
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Come share information about your program, best practices, challenges, and needs. Learn more about what a variety of organizations are doing and network with leaders in the immigrant health community! All are invited to attend and share their perspectives on how to improve the health and well-being of immigrant communities in the City and its surrounding areas.
Hosted by the Center for Public Health Initiatives and the Philadelphia Migration Project. Co-sponsors include: Philadelphia Department of Public Health; Nationalities Service Center; Penn Institute for Urban Research; Metropolis International; Mayor's Office of Multicultural Affairs.
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11/2/09 @ 12pm
Monday |
The Japanese Experience: Long Term Care, End-of-life Decision-making, & Healthcare Reform
Location: Chestnut Room, Colonial Penn Center, 3641 Locust Walk
RSVP to maddene@wharton.upenn.edu
The Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics, the Center for Public Health Initiatives, & the Health Care Management Department at the Wharton School of Business invite you to attend an informal lunchtime discussion on “The Japanese Experience: Long Term Care, End-of-life Decision-making, & Healthcare Reform”
with Dr. Naoki Ikegami Chair of the Department of Health Policy and Management at the Keio University School of Medicine. Dr. Ikegami is widely regarded as Japan’s top health economist.
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11/5/09 @ 12pm
Thursday |
Creative Action: Exhibit Opening - Health of Philadelphia Photo-documentation Project
Location: Terrace Room, Claudia Cohen Hall, 249 South 36th St
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This event is part of the Center for Public Health Initiative's 2009-2010 seminar series, "Creative Action: The Arts in Public Health" Carolyn C. Cannuscio, ScD is a Assistant Professor in the School of Medicine and a core faculty member at the CPHI. After a short presentation on the Health of Philadelphia Photo-documentation Project (HOPPP), Dr. Cannuscio will open up her photo/audio exhibit on the project. This exhibit will be open for viewing until November 20th. This event is co-sponsored by: Penn SPEC. This series is co-sponsored by: Arts and the City Year, Civic House, VA CHERP, City of Philadelphia Office of Arts, Culture, and the Creative Economy
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